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Draft: Elaborate on why we are moving releases to third Thursday of a month

Grzegorz Bizon requested to merge blog/gb/explain-better-departure-from-releases-on-22nd into master

Why is this change being made?

I'm proposing some changes to the recently published blog post to elaborate on why we are moving our releases from 22nd day of a month to the third Thursday.

How I understand the previous content is that we want to say that the new cadence will be more consistent and predictable, but it is hard to say that the previous way of releasing on 22nd wasn't more predictable.

The proposed content also clarifies the intention to support team members who otherwise may work over the weekend to ensure smooth release.

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